Home Staging Tips for your Basement

If it is part of the sale, you need to pay attention to it.....period.

It would be a shame if buyers passed because the basement was less than desirable. These are great tips for unfinished basements, Suzanne!

A dry basement is a huge sticking point, in those summer storms so many basements flood, having the one that doesn't is a blessing.  Good points about sprucing up an oft neglected area.

Suzanne, these are great tips for staging basements.  We don't typically have basements in Florida though.

Oh yes, buyers want to see the basement too. If it has a damp odor, they start to wonder about what is causing it.

Good morning Suzanne. Some buyers don't have any vision as to what can be done with an unfinished basement. Many can get finished for great family fun for years to come. Excellent post!

Suzanne Otto as much as it is true for rest of the house, it is true of the basement, too -

Get rid of things you won't need while it's on the market because it will just take up the valuable space that your buyers are looking for. 

This is so true - basements can kill a sale, and many are in nasty shape.  I hate the cobwebs.  In one house, there was a huge hairy spider on the side of the stairwell which we all avoided on our way downstairs but I didn't even want to GO down there.....  I was envisioning the spider jumping on me. Ick.

We have virtually no underground basements in our area (typically they are daylight, walk-out). But your suggestions are spot on (I've personally always been creeped out by dark and dank basements).

Basements are very important in our area.  If a home has one, it needs to be in good condition and staged when necessary.  Good information here.  

Love this post! Why? Because the basement is also an important feature. If it's left alone as a non-entity, it will affect the entire home's appearance. If people can see it as a clean, dry, storage area (and organized to boot) they can imagine their stuff there too - just as much as their couches upstairs!

Excellent.

Suzanne -- Excellent tips.  Darkness and walking into spiker webs does not make a good impression.  I have even seen rodent droppings.  Not good.  Clean it up, light it up and organize it.

Probably one of the most ignored spaces of a home . . . the lowly basement!  Good post with this Suzanne.

Very important to get all the cobwebs in the corners of the room and in high traffic areas.  Nothing worse than having to pull a bunch of spider webs off you while taking a brief tour of the basement.  

Excellent advice.  Basements and garages are all too often forgotten in the preparation process.  This is why the organized ones really stand out!